Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from the UAE and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Flash Fearless to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
The Neon Judgement,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pantytec,
The Barracudas,
Camouflage,
Absolute Body Control,
Make Up,
Ronnie Foster,
Tres Demented,
Bobby Sherman,
Faust,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erasure,
Mandrill,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Rufus Thomas,
The Last Poets,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Christie,
Hashim,
Main Source,
Interpol,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Litter,
The Sound,
The Count Five,
Hardrive,
Banda Bassotti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Organ,
Warren Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
PIL,
Dave Gahan,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Move,
World's Most,
Faraquet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rosa Yemen,
Nick Fraelich,
Flash Fearless,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
Godley & Creme,
Accadde A,
Schoolly D,
Kevin Saunderson,
ABBA,
The Sonics,
Graham Central Station,
Matthew Bourne,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.